Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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Title	Author	Year
Lines from “The Vision of Lazarus”	Fenton Johnson	1922
The New Day	Fenton Johnson	1922
Black Mammies	John Wesley Holloway	1922
Brothers	James Weldon Johnson	1922
O Black and Unknown Bards	James Weldon Johnson	1922
from “When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day”	Alain Mabanckou	2022
Sic Vita	William Stanley Braithwaite	1922
Abomunist Manifesto	Bob Kaufman	2019
The Feet of Judas	George Marion McClellan	1922
A Litany Of Atlanta	W. E. B. Du Bois	1922
It Was Not Fate	William Moore	1922
When Ol’ Sis’ Judy Pray	James Edwin Campbell	1922
Constantinople	Ameen Rihani	1921
The End and the Beginning	Ameen Rihani	1921
From the Arabic	Ameen Rihani	1921
The Lost Disciple	Ameen Rihani	1921
The Song of Rain	Ameen Rihani	1921
Prayer in the Desert	Ameen Rihani	1921
Satan	Jamil B. Holway	2000
A Chant of Mystics	Ameen Rihani	1921

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